Dr. Richard J. Terrile
Richard J.
Terrile, Ph.D. is an astronomer and the director of the Center for
Evolutionary Computation and Automated Design at NASA’s Jet Propulsion
Laboratory. He uses techniques based on biological evolution and
development to advance the fields of robotics and computer intelligence.
He earned his Ph.D. in Planetary Science from the California Institute
of
Technology and has developed missions to Mars and to the outer solar
system.
Rich is the discoverer of four moons around
Saturn,
Uranus, and Neptune and took the first pictures of another solar system
around the nearby star Beta Pictoris. His other interests include
planetary rings, planetary geology, evolutionary computation, and the
development of medical instrumentation for tissue identification during
neurosurgery.
Rich is a private pilot, a SCUBA and ski instructor, a rock
climber and caver, and was an astronaut candidate. He has interests in
fiction writing, photography, cinematography and movies, and works as a
technical advisor on several major motion pictures, including work with
Academy Award winning directors James Cameron and Steven Soderbergh. He
was featured in several science shows and has been a regular
performer at the Ice House and the Comedy Store in the “Improv Inferno”
improvisation group.
His
Terrile Science and Technical Consulting
offers science and technical
consulting services for motion picture, movies, television, corporate,
and financial customers.
Movies that he has been a technical consultant for include
2010: The Year We Made Contact,
Solar Crisis,
Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines, and
Solaris.
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full list of movies that he has advised.
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